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As the pageant closed, he cried in his dad\u2019s arms and lookers-on believed that he was weeping for his lost title. But Colby was weeping for a much different reason.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Colby would begin his transition to male six months later, in early 2012. Four years later,\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fmic.com%2Farticles%2F134647%2Fthere-s-a-reason-this-trans-man-and-former-beauty-queen-wants-to-show-you-his-scars%3Futm_source%3DpolicymicTBLR%26utm_medium%3Dmain%26utm_campaign%3Dsocial&amp;t=OWVmYmMzZmMyNDlkN2JkNjVjNzhlNjJkYjE0Y2VjMWY2YzkzYzkwNSxFc010Wk1Fcw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">he\u2019s telling his story\u00a0very publicly on YouTube \u2014 all to prove a point about trans people.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>micdotcom: At Ashton Colby\u2019s final beauty pageant in late 2011, where he was competing for the title of Miss Ohio 2012, he lost. As the pageant closed, he cried in his dad\u2019s arms and lookers-on believed that he was weeping for his lost title. But Colby was weeping for a much different reason.\u00a0 Colby would &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/10\/micdotcom-at-ashton-colbys-final-beauty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13019,585,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105914,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105903\/revisions\/105914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}